Am 19.04.10 21:15, schrieb Peter Münster:
On Mon, Apr 19 2010, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
\starttext
\define\hans{hans}
\define\hans{taco}
\stoptext
the output now is 'hans' because \define checks whether a command with the
name \hans is already defined
Hello Wolfgang,
Did you test it? The output is "taco" here on my system:
MTXrun | current version: 2010.04.16 21:08
no i didn't test it
context has two different versions of \define, there is one in
syst-ext.mkii/syst-aux.mkiv
which has no parameters but prevents you from overwriting a existing
command (there \redefine
with allows this) and another one in core-sys.mkii/mkiv which replace
the first one and has
support for parameters but replace on the other side the old definition
(you get only the
terminal message)
the question is, which behavious is correct, replace the old macro or
keep it, in my
opinion \define should leave the old definition untouced and \redefine
should be used
in this case (but we need a version with parameters)
Wolfgang
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